The organisation provides services in emergency, maternity, women’s health, medical imaging, pathology, rehabilitation, community services, residential aged care, psychiatric care, community dental, hospice, palliative care, cardiology, cancer services and renal dialysis to the people of the Loddon Mallee region.

In addition to operating a large acute hospital we offer subacute services including inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, a regional psychiatric service, residential care, specialist clinics, dialysis and a range of outreach services such as hospital in the home.

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A 724-bed service, Bendigo Health treats more than 49,000 inpatients, deals with more than 52,000 emergency attendances, delivers around 1,400 babies and takes more than 110,000 medical images each year.

These services are complemented by an integrated Cancer Centre, which administers around 9000 chemotherapy treatments each year, an 80-bed Psychiatry Unit and 11 operating theatres where almost 15,000 surgical procedures are performed annually.

The first patient of the new at home program of Subcutaneous Immunoglobulin Therapy (SCIg) infusions has received his supplies and is undergoing training to self-administer his own medical infusions.

This is a huge positive for 28-year-old Callum who can now independently maintain his blood infusions in his own time, around work commitments and even if he chooses, while watching a film in the comfort of his home.

“As a young and active patient, Callum was grateful to have a bit more time back,” Oncology Nurse Kim Dalton said.

“It’s fantastic to see patients have more independence in their treatment. Patients would have previously had to schedule their lives around their infusion appointments. With SCIg Therapy at home they are able to fit their treatment into their own routine, giving them flexibility and fewer hospital visits,” Kim said.

Home Based Cancer Care Coordinator, Trudy Haines, said the Wellbeing Centre nurses are supportive of the new program. “It will open up spaces in the Cancer Centre to be able to treat more patients who are unable to attend to their own infusions at home,” 

The new $630 million state-of-the-art Bendigo Hospital has won an international award for excellence in design.

Stage One of the landmark project won the Best of Asia Pacific Design Award from the International Interior Design Association in the healthcare category. It is the only Australian building to win an award in the competition.

The top international honour recognises inspiring design and acute architectural understanding of the way people live and work in a local context.

“It is a shining example of innovative, world-class hospital design where patient needs are front and centre,” says Minister for Health Jill Hennessy.